Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo

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The Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo were a 20th century ballet company based in Monte-Carlo , which toured internationally with great success with different directors, casts and names.

development

The Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo went in 1932 as the successor company of the Ballets Russes of Sergei Djagilew from an association of the Ballets de l'Opéra de Monte Carlo directed by René Blum with the Ballet de l'Opéra Russe à directed by Prince Alexis Tsereteli and Colonel de Basil Paris emerged. Initially the director was Basil, the artistic director Blum and Serge Grigoriev the director. Besides Grigoriev, Boris Kochno , George Balanchine , Léonide Massine , Leon Wojcikowski and Felia Doubrovska from Djagilev's company were there. Furthermore, the troop u. a. Alexandra Danilova and the three dancers Irina Baronova , Tatiana Riabouchinska and Tamara Toumanova , who are known as “baby ballerinas” because of their youth .

The company gave a gala performance in honor of the Prince of Monaco with Balanchine's cotillon in January 1932 and made its official debut in April 1932. In June 1932, it triumphed in Paris with three works by Balanchine and Massines Jeux d'enfants . After a season in London, the company embarked on its first US tour in 1933. Balanchine left the company in 1933, and Leonide Massine was his successor. His most important new ballets such as Les Présages , Choreartium and Union Pacific were written at this time and for this company, which also had works by Bronislava Nijinska in its program.

In 1936, Blum and de Basil separated. Blum founded his own company, the Ballets de Monte Carlo , while Basil initially called the troupe he had left Ballets Russes du Colonel de Basil . Blum hired Michel Fokine as artistic director. With Leonide Massine as his successor, the company was renamed Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1938 . Basils Company was renamed Educational Ballets Ltd. in 1938 . , then renamed Covent Garden Russian Ballet and has been operating as Original Ballet Russe since 1939 . While Massine moved to Blum, Fokine was with de Basil for a short time in 1938/39. He created Cendrillon (1938) and Paganini (1939) for de Basil's company .

In 1938 both successor companies had a legal dispute over the performing rights of the Dyagilev repertoire. In the process, Basil was granted exclusive rights for his company to certain ballets created for Dyagilev's company by Leonide Massine. Blum's company was dissolved in 1952, but re-established in 1954 and existed until 1963. Basil's company existed until 1948 (and Massine's choreographic rights thus reverted to him as the author).

literature

  • Horst Koegler , Helmut Günther : Reclams Ballettlexikon. Philipp Reclam jun. Stuttgart 1984, p. 37f. (Ballet RdMC), p. 38 (BdMC), p. 40 (Ballets Russes dMC), p. 48 (Basil), p. 66 (Blum), p. 366 (original BR).
  • Georges Detaille u. Gérard Mulys: Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo 1911-1944. Préface de Jean Cocteau . Éditions ARC-EN-CIEL, Paris 1954.
  • Jack Anderson: The One and Only: The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo . Dance Horizons, New York 1981.
  • Vicente García-Marquez: The Ballets Russes: Colonel de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo 1932–1952. Knopf, New York 1990. ISBN 0-3945-2875-1
  • Victoria Tennant: Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. University of Chicago Press, Chicago a. London 2014. ISBN 978-0226167169